Iāve just got my Ringo for Christmas and Iāve ported my game Anarch to it. It is a completely public domain FPS game inspired by games like Doom and Wolf3D, made from scratch and to be very portable. Here is its website.
To port it I just had to write a small frontend (fewer than 200 LOC). I wanted to use EEPROM for saving progress, but that somehow didnāt work (I think the firmware uses it), so itās using the SD now. Also Iāve noticed that even though the TFT library accepts 565 colors, it displays them as 332, so the colors are a bit distorted when compared to other versions. The sound only plays beeps as I didnāt find a simple way to play sounds from memory, the sound lib can only play wav files. FPS is set to 35, even though I think it could go higher. I think the port could be improved, but I am pretty lazy and donāt like developing for Arduino, so if anyone feels like it, you can do it
This is awesome, @drummyfish! Iām very impressed by what you achieved here-- not only with Anarch but with raycastlib and related projects like small3dlib. I am enjoying Anarch a lot, it runs surprisingly smooth and really shows what the Ringo is capable of. I look forward to playing the Linux and Meta versions as well. Cheers
Where can I find instructions on how to play? That is, what each of the buttons do, etc. Itās not terribly obvious just pressing buttons at random. Canāt figure out, for example, how to switch knife to something else.
arrows (also buttons 1-6): movement
A (also 8): game A button, shoot, confirm
B (also 9): game B button, hold to strafe
7: game C button (with other keys can switch weapons etc.)
*: map #: jump
0: menu
func left/func right: change weapons
The HW specs are more than enough, the game just needs 3 buttons besides arrow keys, so if the menu button can be used by the game then yes. Not sure if there is an emulator, youād have to wait until I buy this, which probably wonāt be soon, however, doing the port is really pretty easy as I designed it exactly for portability, so anyone can do it. You only need to write a few lines of frontend like this and compile only that single file with Arduino IDE, thatās it.
It works really great on the nibble console you just have to downloadthe source code of anarch on github and put the nibble_master file and all the files with .h on a new folder called nibble_master, open it with arduino IDE and choose the nibble board and then export !
